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En-Gendering Economic Inequality Michele E University of Baltimore Law ScholarWorks@University of Baltimore School of Law All Faculty Scholarship Faculty Scholarship 2016 En-Gendering Economic Inequality Michele E. Gilman University of Baltimore School of Law, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/all_fac Part of the Health Law and Policy Commons, Labor and Employment Law Commons, Law and Economics Commons, Law and Gender Commons, and the Supreme Court of the United States Commons Recommended Citation Michele E. Gilman, En-Gendering Economic Inequality, 32.1 Colum. J. of Gender and Law 1 (2016). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at ScholarWorks@University of Baltimore School of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@University of Baltimore School of Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 32.1 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 1 EN-GENDERING ECONOMIC INEQUALITY MICHELE E. GILMAN* Abstract We live in an era of growing economic inequality. Luminaries ranging from the President to the Pope to economist Thomas Piketty in his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty- First Century have raised alarms about the disparity between the haves and the have-nots. Overlooked, however, in these important discussions is the reality that economic inequality is not a uniform experience; rather, its effects fall more harshly on women and minorities. With regard to gender, American women have higher rates of poverty and get paid less than comparable men, and their workplace participation rates are falling. Yet economic inequality is neither inevitable nor intractable. Given that the government creates the rules of the market, it is essential to analyze the government’s role in perpetuating economic inequality. This Article specifically examines the role of the Supreme Court in contributing to gender- based economic inequality. The thesis is that the Supreme Court applies oversimplified economic assumptions about the market in its decision-making, thereby perpetuating economic inequality on the basis of gender. Applying insights of feminist economic theory, the Article analyzes recent Supreme Court jurisprudence about women workers, including Wal-Mart v. Dukes (denying class certification to female employees who were paid and promoted less than men), Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (granting business owners the right to deny contraception coverage to female employees on religious grounds), and Harris v. Quinn (limiting the ability of home health care workers to unionize and thereby improve their working conditions). In these cases, the Court elevates its narrow view of efficiency over more comprehensive understandings, devalues care work, upholds harmful power imbalances, and ignores the intersectional reality of the lives of low-wage women workers. The Article concludes that the Court is eroding collective efforts by women to improve their working conditions and economic standing. It suggests advocacy strategies for reforming law to obtain economic justice for women and their families. 2 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 32.1 INTRODUCTION President Obama calls economic inequality the “defining challenge of our time.”1 Pope Francis decries “trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world.”2 Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen asks whether growing economic inequality “is compatible with values rooted in our nation’s history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.”3 Corporate America is also sounding the alarm, concerned that falling incomes will hurt profits and hinder economic growth.4 In short, economic inequality is firmly on the public agenda, as experts, policymakers, and presidential candidates debate its causes, consequences, and cures. Less attention is focused on the reality that not all groups experience inequality similarly. To the contrary, economic inequality falls most harshly on minorities and women.5 The * Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law. Director, Civil Advocacy Clinic; Co- Director, Center on Applied Feminism. B.A., Duke University; J.D., University of Michigan Law School. Thanks to participants at the AALS Workshop on Next Generation Issues on Sex, Gender, and the Law, as well as at the Workshop on Vulnerability at the Intersection of the Changing Firm and the Changing Family at Emory Law School for their insights. I am also grateful for comments from Dan Hatcher, Margaret Johnson, and Barbara White. 1 President Barack Obama, Remarks on Economic Inequality at the White House (Dec. 4, 2014) (transcript available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/12/04/remarks-president-economic-mobility [https://perma.cc/M7QY-D4ML]). 2 Zachary A. Goldfarb & Michelle Boorstein, Pope Francis Denounces “Trickle-Down” Economic Theories in Sharp Criticism of Inequality, Wash. Post, Nov. 26, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ economy/pope-francis-denounces-trickle-down-economic-theories-in-critique-of-inequality/2013/11/26/ e17ffe4e-56b6-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html [https://perma.cc/83PJ-R54Y]. 3 Pedro Nicolaci Da Costa, Janet Yellen Decries Widening Income Inequality, Wall St. J., Oct. 17, 2014, http://www.wsj.com/articles/feds-yellen-says-extreme-inequality-could-be-un-american-1413549684 [https:// perma.cc/XBB6-EARX]. 4 See Business Leaders Worry About Income Inequality And Revolution, Forbes (Sept. 9, 2014), http://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2014/09/09/business-leaders-worry-about- income-inequality-and-revolution/ [https://perma.cc/5DY6-UAXP]; How Increasing Income Inequality is Dampening U.S. Economic Growth, and Possible Ways to Change the Tide, Standard & Poor’s Global Credit Portal (Aug. 5, 2014), https://www.globalcreditportal. com/ratingsdirect/renderArticle.do?articleId=1351366&SctArtId=255732&from=CM&nsl_ code=LIME&sourceObjectId=8741033&sourceRevId=1&fee_ind=N&exp_date=20240804-19:41:13;%20 http://time.com/3083100/income-inequality/ [https://perma.cc/X7SF-7C29]. 5 On the racial wealth and income gap, see Rakesh Kochhar & Richard Fry, Wealth Inequality has Widened Along Racial, Ethnic Lines Since End of Great Recession, Pew Res. Ctr. (Dec. 12, 2014), http://www. 32.1 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 3 intersection of economic inequality with gender, as shaped and reinforced by law, is the focus of this Article. Currently, the top 1% of households earns one-fifth of the nation’s income.6 Wealth inequality is even greater, as the top 1% of the distribution owns approximately 42% of the nation’s wealth.7 Meanwhile, a majority of Americans face stagnant wages, reduced social mobility, and higher job insecurity.8 The middle class is shrinking,9 while at the bottom of the economic barrel, nearly 15% of the population lives below the poverty line,10 where they struggle to meet basic needs such as food and housing.11 Economic inequality causes pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/12/racial-wealth-gaps-great-recession/ [https://perma.cc/NWJ5-8V84]; Thomas Shapiro, Tatjana Meschede & Sam Osoro, The Roots of the Widening Racial Wealth Gap: Explaining the Black-White Economic Divide, Inst. on Assets & Soc. Pol’y (Feb. 2013), http://iasp.brandeis.edu/pdfs/ Author/shapiro-thomas-m/racialwealthgapbrief.pdf [https://perma.cc/5MB8-D9PK]. On gender and economic inequality, see Part I.B. infra. 6 See Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century 296 (2014). 7 See Emmanuel Saez & Gabriel Zucman, Wealth Inequality in the United States Since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data (Nat’l Bureau of Econ. Research, Working Paper No. 20645, 2014). The richest 0.1% holds 22% of the wealth; this group has driven the growth of wealth inequality. Id. at 22. For an explanation of the data, trends, and measurement of economic inequality, see Chad Stone et al., A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality, Ctr. on Budget Pol’y & Priorities (Feb. 20, 2015), http://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/11-28-11pov.pdf [https://perma.cc/DY7X-4LS9]. 8 See Ctr. for Am. Progress, Report of the Commission on Inclusive Prosperity 10 (Jan. 2015) (workers face stagnant wages despite corporate growth); Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson, Winner-Take- All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class 2, 4 (2011). 9 See Keith Miller & David Madland, As Income Inequality Rises, America’s Middle Class Shrinks, Ctr. for Am. Progress (Dec. 18, 2014), https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2014/12/18/101790/ as-income-inequality-rises-americas-middle-class-shrinks/ [https://perma.cc/7SJB-BF9N] (“As income inequality has steadily grown in the United States, the actual size of America’s middle class has shrunk.”); 17 Things We Learned About Income Inequality in 2014, Atlantic (Dec. 23, 2014), http://www.theatlantic.com/ business/archive/2014/12/17-things-we-learned-about-income-inequality-in-2014/383917/?single_page=true [https://perma.cc/27MT-M7N7] (“More of the middle class is migrating to the lower class due to stagnant incomes and the increased cost of living . ”). 10 Carmen DeNavas-Walt & Bernadette D. Proctor, U.S. Census Bureau, Income and Poverty in the United States: 2013 12 (2014). 11 One study found that even under a conservative measure, 1.17 million children are in families living in
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